Today was the thirty sixth day of Operation Protective Edge.
Head of new #UN Israel-bashing Gaza "inquiry" concocts Syria defense against "powerful" West. http://t.co/9klUXggDYN pic.twitter.com/sFLusuWa2d
— Anne Bayefsky (@AnneBayefsky) August 12, 2014
The Tower Today recalled remarks made by William Schabas pegged by the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to head an investigation into Israel’s Operation Protective Edge. Last year Schabas rejected the notion that Syria could have or had committed war crimes by using chemical weapons.
Randy Levine hosted 40 young men & women who will move to Israel to serve in the IDF!@Yankees
Via @MikeTCohen http://t.co/6u3yHtEY3e— Marc Leibowitz (@Marc_Leibowitz) August 12, 2014
An audit conducted by the United Nations raised fears that the lack of oversight exercised by the United Nations Development Programme could have allowed Hamas to acquire the materials it needed for constructing the terror tunnels it built in recent years to attack Israel.
Even as Britain threatens Israel with a weapons ban, it continues to sell weapons to Russia. http://t.co/RTwDSe7KjJ @JeffreyGoldberg
— Victor Shikhman (@VictorShikhman) August 12, 2014
An op-ed in a London-based Saudi paper, A Sharq al-Awsat, asserted that the Israeli-Arab conflict doesn’t exist anymore. Mamoun Fandy wrote, “The conflict in now regionalized at the geopolitical level, with Iran and Turkey directly involved through their backing Hezbollah and Hamas respectively.” Fandy even allowed that the current regional realignment, with non-Arab Iran and Turkey supporting extremists, could lead to a peace deal between Israel and much of the Arab world.
Erdogan wins Turkey’s presidential election, plans to "strenghten" powers of the presidency. Democracy beware http://t.co/529gBF4tNu
— Matthew Levitt (@Levitt_Matt) August 11, 2014
Writing in Newsweek Benny Avni evaluated Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s victory earlier this week in the race for president of Turkey, “His victory in the presidential election is just the start, and he has made clear he plans to change the constitution so that he can more easily dominate every aspect of the country.”
Pro-Israel Celebrity of The Day: Dean Cain http://t.co/LBHmORp8mz
— That Aussie Dave (@Israellycool) August 12, 2014
A leaked document from the ongoing Egypt sponsored indirect ceasefire talks between Israel and Hamas has provided some details of Hamas’ apparent retreat on some of its demands. The Israeli daily Yediot Achronot reported that among the demands being shelved are “Hamas’ demands for a seaport and airport.”
An EL AL flight with 338 Olim from the US & Canada arrived in Israel this morning on a special Nefesh B’Nefesh flight pic.twitter.com/iquhMH5saE
— EL AL USA (@ELALUSA) August 12, 2014
Though ISIS has made significant gains in northern Iraq recently, including the capture of the Mosul dam, earlier this week Kurdish troops supported by American airstrikes managed to reverse some of the ISIS gains.
World’s first photonic router demonstrated [via http://t.co/K2DIgUitoa] #science #innovation pic.twitter.com/3UevqHqdbV
— Hager Group (@hagergroup) July 29, 2014
Israel21c reports that scientists at the Weizmann Institute developed a “photonic router.” This router is thought to be one of the building blocks for quantum computing. A quantum computer would “harness the power of atoms and molecules to perform memory and processing tasks,” and would be significantly faster than silicon based computers that we have now.